Example sentences of "[det] [adj] people had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting was more protracted in Croatia , where some 300 people had been killed by mid-August . |
| 2 | It claimed that some 300 people had been detained and tortured in 1990-91 and many had been tortured . |
| 3 | Disaster relief officials said that over the last three days another 12,000 people had been evacuated to join 45,000 already crammed into the centres after an eruption killed 75 people on 2 February . |
| 4 | Some 592 people had been injured in the police attack on student demonstrators , which precipitated the November revolution . |
| 5 | Some 17 people had been killed in the fighting . |
| 6 | Croatian Foreign Minister Zvonimir Separovic said in a letter to EC foreign ministers on Oct. 27 that some 5,000 people had been killed in Croatia since the beginning of July . |
| 7 | On Feb. 20 the government reported that some 5,000 people had been detained and transported by air to the first two of five detention camps being set up in the Sahara region of southern Algeria . |
| 8 | The release of Mandela on feb. 11 [ see pp. 37232-33 ] also appeared to have provoked new levels of violence , particularly in faction fighting in Natal townships ; by late March some 250 people had been killed since his release , mostly in Natal and the homelands . |
| 9 | Just before the men were charged , Le Monde published a confidential document prepared for the government in 1989 showing that some 360,000 people had been infected with blood contaminated by hepatitis because of inadequate testing of blood donors between 1980 and 1988 , when compulsory tests were introduced . |
| 10 | Eighteen per cent of these young people had been sexually abused at some time and 4 per cent of the females cited this as the main reason for running ( Newman , forthcoming ) . |
| 11 | News agencies cited NPFL reports that 1,500-2,000 people had been killed , and said that numbers of refugees had died of exhaustion and hunger trying to reach Monrovia . |
| 12 | Cedric and Dorothy had seemed a centre , even an essential one ; so many well-known people had been in and out with their politics , books , causes , marches for this and that , demonstrations . |
| 13 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 14 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 15 | Like very many other people , and this theme runs right through the length of European intellectual life , Russell was , he was delighted with mathematics when he first encountered it , erm immensely impressed by the certainty of its propositions , as so many other people had been , erm troubled a bit by the logical inadequacy of much of the mathematics that he was presented with , especially at Cambridge , and investing mathematics with a kind of Platonic aura . |
| 16 | The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend . |
| 17 | Several hundred people had been killed in religious riots in northern Nigeria during 1991 [ see pp. 38519 ; 38135-36 ] . |